#HISTORY

THREAD In 2019, I had the privilege of acting as a judge for the Duff Cooper Literary Prize, awarded annually since 1956 for a work of poetry or non-fiction. It
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1. Really?  A better grasp of American history would be helpful.President Trump didn’t use the IRS and FBI against his political opponents like at least 4 of his predecessors. 2.
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This week we are going #AroundTheWorld for #MuseumAtHome!What links North West England to deepest, darkest Peru?Clue: it’s not @paddingtonbear!(1/6) In 1895 William Smithies, a Warrington based textile worker, moved to
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I'm sure people will accuse Princeton of "erasing history". That's backwards. Keeping Wilson's name meant ignoring the facts that disqualified him from the honor. Acknowledging history is the opposite of
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These problems are of your own making.Ignored the fundamentals.Reform & detoxify education.In 5 years you would have had an entire generation that would have read history, not poison, in schools.They'd
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A THREAD ON AUDIOBOOKS1/ A few weeks ago I finally had to cut most podcasts out of my life. They used to be a good distraction while housecleaning, but the
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the reasons we don’t proselytize are more complex & include that we were usually forbidden from doing so on pain of death by our “hosts” throughout history—if they let us
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When Buhari was the head of the PTF, late Prof Dora Akunyili worked under him though not directly.She got sick and doctors in Nigeria advised her to go abroad for
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Why Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia is one of the best pop albums we’ve seen in recent history. — A Thread Not only did Dua reinvent herself and bring back disco
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In mid-January, China and the World Health Organization were both telling the world that COVID-19 was not being spread person to person. But somehow Trump should have known better. Nevermind
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.@sarahkendzior Perhaps you can answer this: what other leaders in history have willfully allowed their citizens to die? Is this a form of terrorism? I would like to start getting
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I took my time reading the magnificent wonder that is @MaazaMengiste book #TheShadowKing. I imagine teaching it in the comparative African literatures class I teach entitled “How to Read and
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Thread for world history issues.As w/ my earlier post a/b needing to stop the brown ppl vs white ppl narrative, I thought I'd share some history many ppl don't know
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1) In "The End of Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America," historian Greg Grandin explores the meaning of the frontier over the long
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People who argue about who's best girl have difficult romantic history It's me. I'm people.
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I had found a few historical references too, dating back to 1600's as "Cinchona Bark", "Jesuits Bark" & "Jesuits Powder"....An intersting history of #Quinine #Chloroquine #HydroxychloroquineI started he
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